A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.